April 1998
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
16h 11m
English
book
Sun Performance and Tuning: Java™ and the Internet, Second Edition
by Adrian Cockcroft, Richard Pettit
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Chapter 9. Networks
The subject of network configuration and performance has been extensively covered by other writers [1]. For that reason, this chapter concentrates on Sun-specific networking issues, such as the performance characteristics of the many network adapters and operating system releases.
[1] In particular, see Managing NFS and NIS by Hal Stern.